While you are trying to keep cool this summer, the Forsyth County (North Carolina) Department of Animal Control asks you to put yourself in your pet’s “paws†after all they are wearing fur coats! Each summer, the department, and others like it across the U. S., receive hundreds of complaints concerning dogs left unattended in hot [...]
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is saddened to announce...
After half a century of debate, a University of...
A shining star has emerged in the polar bear...
The northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf is officially removed...
Shark enthusiasts are invited to keep track of a young white shark returned to the wild by the Monterey Bay Aquarium six weeks ago. So far, it has traveled past the southern tip of Baja California and is heading toward waters off the Mexican mainland, no passport required. The shark’s whereabouts are monitored by the [...]
Globally, invasive species represent a major threat to native species. A new paper published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows that, for rivers and lakes, where these invasions occur is predicted by human activity; find an area where economic activity is high and, in nearby lakes and rivers, up to a quarter [...]
Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality—a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature—scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Toledo have shown that clusters of ant nests on a coffee farm [...]
Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites whose lives [...]
New study suggests largest fish in the sea thriving under regulated ecotourism. Up to 20 meters long and weighing as much as 20 tons, its enormous size gives the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) its name. Known as the ‘gentle giant’ for its non-predatory behavior, this fish, with its broad, flattened head and minute teeth, eats [...]
Experts raise serious concerns about the expansion of industrial fish farming. A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction. The results show that the affected pink salmon populations [...]
New study shows that dogs can classify color photographs and transfer knowledge in computer tests. Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories [...]
The discovery of a giant fossilised claw.- from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about eight foot(two and a half meters) long, much taller than the average man. This find, from rocks 390 million years old, suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the [...]
